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6 hours ago · A new Pew Research Center poll released Thursday showed that only 20% of voters are highly confident the Supreme Court would be politically neutral in any election case. “Everybody seems to think that the court makes decisions based on partisan considerations, rather than considerations of facts and the law,” said Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at New York University’s ...
Jun 21, 2021 · Wingo said, "A 9-0 Supreme Court ruling is the equivalent of finding a unicorn and a Yeti at the same time under a rainbow with a pot of gold and they’re both speaking 3 languages." In truth, 9 ...
Oct 3, 2024 · President Joe Biden reacts as Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during an event celebrating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court on April 8, 2022, in ...
- Reduced Unanimity and The Rise of The 6-3 Court
- Roberts and Kavanaugh Exert Their Influence
- Dissents and Concurrences Rise
This term, only 29% of the court’s decisions on the merits were unanimous. This is a sharp drop from the 43% average over the past decade. And for the first time in recent memory, 9-0 was not the most common vote alignment. Instead, 6-3 was the most common alignment, with 30% of cases being decided along those lines. Most of those 6-3 decisions — 1...
Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh remain in positions of power as the court’s median justices. They were in the majority in 95% of the court’s decisions, and dissented only three times each. In fact, in a sign of how much they are in lockstep, their dissents were in the same three cases. As has been true in each of the past three terms, Roberts a...
Collectively, the justices wrote slightly more opinions than they did in the prior two terms, though the number of cases the court granted for argument continues its gradual trend downward. Sotomayor and Thomas, the justices at the court’s ideological poles, were the most prolific writers, as usual. In Thomas’ case, that was driven by a high number...
Jul 10, 2014 · Let’s take a look at each measure. Measure #1: The first and broadest measure of unanimity is precisely the one that we use in the SCOTUSblog Stat Pack: any case in which all the Justices voted for the same judgment, i.e., to affirm, reverse, or vacate the decision below. By this measure, the Court was unanimous in forty-eight cases during ...
5 days ago · In response to that decision, Biden embraced three proposals: term limits for justices, a binding code of Supreme Court ethics, and a constitutional amendment overturning the Trump immunity case ...
Jun 26, 2024 · The Supreme Court has rejected a case claiming the Biden administration illegally coerced social media platforms into taking down posts about Covid-19 and the 2020 election that were considered ...
